Category: Sustainable farming

• IN LIKE FLYNN

  

  We backed the stock trailer up to the pig gate and Molly almost climbed right over the gate in her excitement to get in. We drove her to the West Barn where she leapt off the trailer and trotted with great enthusiasm down the corridor and into her side pen where her dinner waited. Manu…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countrylife, farming, farmlife, growing food, hereford hogs, hogs, pigs, shifting pigs, sustainable

• WATCHING

  

  Boo and the cats have an arrangement. They don’t run – he won’t chase them. But he still watches them very carefully in case someone wants to play. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 12, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countryife, drying up the cow, farming, farmlife, flaxseeds, making butter, milking, udder

• SUGARING SOON

  

  While we were embracing (somewhat reluctantly) snowfall after snowfall over the last week or so I spent more time than usual in the kitchen.  I get hungry when I am stuck inside. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cold, countrylife, farming, farmlife, maples, snow, sugaring, survival, tree planting, winter

• PUSHY COW

  

  gain By yesterday morning the sick pig was given an A- and by yesterday evening she was given an A+ and was back to shoving the others out of the way to get to her food. Her breathing is still a little laboured but her attitude will fix that. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farming

  blogging, cows, farmanimals, farming, fences, pig, prairie, weather, wildness, winter

• FOG. RAIN. SNOW.

  Yesterday the fog hung thick. Blanketing the earth for the whole day. Usually, a fog will lift in the late morning but yesterday we shoved through the sodden visible air for the whole day. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2018

  farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countrylife, cows, farm photography, farming, midwest, pigs, rain, weather